1809
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Les Liliacées: Ornithogalum longibracteatum is a 1809 by Pierre Joseph Redouté, a Romanticism work, depicting Tulipa, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows white lily flowers with long green stems and leaves. Redouté painted each petal with sharp detail. He used colors that make the flowers look almost real. This is part of a bigger book called *Les Liliacées*. It shows many kinds of bulb plants. Redouté worked on this for years, from 1802 to 1816. Look closely at how light hits the petals. It’s like he used a magnifying glass. See this at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Although best known for Les Roses , perhaps Redouté’s most beautiful work is Les Liliacées , which is devoted to the lily family—plants that grow from bulbs, corms, or tubers.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (French pronunciation: , 10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from the Austrian Netherlands, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Château de…
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